DVR Cleaning: Aliens Who?, My Name Is Chuck, Criminal Scrubs
By fred | November 11, 2007
My Name is Earl: Randy In Charge (…Of Our Days And Our Nights)
(S03E09) Well, before anything else I want to mention the whole Green Week thing. When it came up, it felt so forced I was ready to trash it good, but I liked how Earl explained it had nothing to do with anything, but was forced to do it by his boss anyhow. That was actually a good attack at that whole stupid thing, not as good as 30 Rock’s one, but still very good.
On the episode itself, and despite being in prison which I think is limiting and changing the rules of the show - noticed how there is absolutely nothing Earl is making up for, to cross off his list ? - I enjoyed it. It was pretty funny, and I liked how Randy kept going at Earl. If I believe the three little words we got at the end, next week we might have to the brothers going wild, walking free - or will Randy try to boss Earl ? - to get and bring Franck back to prison.
I don’t miss the list deal so much, but I do miss the classic dynamic on the show. I miss having Earl and his brother meeting with Joy and/or Crabman, and I did miss Catalina this week. I blame the whole prison situation for this, and I still wish Earl would be free again soon.
Listen, it’s not even episode 10 and we’ve already has disappointing episodes and many attempts to “break free”, including some “creative writing” and a double Cops. Now is time to admit that prison is limiting, Earl still stayed a while behind bars, it wasn’t just something said but he got released by the first episode of the season or so, but for the sake of the show I think it’s best to end this experience here.
Who knows, maybe after getting so much time reduction, and coming back with an escaped prisoner, Earl could be treated with whatever it takes to have him free again.
Scrubs: My Inconvenient Truth
(S07E03) This was really a great episode. The first one I liked a lot, last week I thought it was a little special and less funny than usual, but this episode felt like one of those great episode Scrubs can offer us, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong in it. Not anywhere.
Even their Green Week contribution was actually great, it didn’t feel forced or anything, and was pretext was a nice plot starring our favorite Janitor, who may or may not be human. Right after 30 Rock this was the best Green Week integration done this week. And along with Tina Fey’s show, those are pretty much the only real ones that were made I believe. (Okay, Earl had a nice mention of it, and maybe The Office throw a little something somewhere, but very little…)
So of course JD is a father, but his kid and her mother are already miles away, and while it seems that he’ll finally have to and try to grow up, we might not see much of the new family.
As I said before, I thought in the previous episodes some things felt out of place, little filler, and things didn’t really work even. But this time it was simply all perfect. Every story was great, every joke worked, there were quite a few hilarious moment, and even the most “odd” one - Cox grabbing Eliot and carrying her around - worked.
Sure, in real life that wouldn’t happen, or Cox would be sued in less than a second, but this is Scrubs, and I really thought it was a bit odd, sure, but what you could expect from those characters.
There was so many great jokes & lines I don’t remember all of them, but I feel the need to quote a few, just for fun :
“
- I’m a dad.
- That’s not your kid.
- I know but he reminds me of Sam.
- That’s a girl.
”
- Yep, that’s gotta be embarrassing: “Aaaa!! I’m a monster!!” Poor JD.
- References to JD and Turk’s special love are always nice :
“
- How come you don’t point out when I ask good questions ?
- Because I don’t love you like he does.
”
- JD trying unsuccessfully to break his own car and needing a moment to breath was pretty damn funny.
“
- I will let you off the hook if you promise never to tell Ted. Yes ?
- No!
- I’m gonna take that as a ‘yes’.
”
- When JD asked everyone if he needed to grow up, that symphony of hesitations was a pretty cool moment ! Yes, I will miss Scrubs.
- “Dribble me!” That “basketball head” scene, up to JD’s “Between the legs!“, awesome.
- The most evil thing Cox ever said to break Eliot’s moral : “Has anyone else noticed how fantastic Dr. Reid has been looking lately ? *all hands raising up* Ted: ’sup girl!”
- “Recycling bin is way over there!”
- The two weeks ago flashbacks on Carla’s lecture was a really nice! Well done.
Anyways, awesome episode, best of the season so far IMO. I can’t wait to see our old JD finally grow up, and I really wish we could see this show end the was it was intended, but given the studios behavior - not even willing to negotiate, while writers had even offered to drop the increase they were asking on DVDs - looks like that strike might be lasting for a while, unfortunately.
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Shows: Aliens In America, Chuck, Criminal Minds, My Name Is Earl, Samantha Who?, Scrubs
